Cutting-table



(No Model.)

V. JONES. CUTTING TABLE.

No. 495,252- PatentedApr. 11, 189s.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VINA JONES, OF ABILENE, TEXAS.l

CUTTING-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,252, dated. April11g, 1893.

ApplicationledDecember 9,1892. Serial No.454,679. (No model.) y

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VINA JONES, a citizen of the United States, residingat Abilene, in the county of Taylor and State of Texas, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in a Cutting Board or Table forMillinery and Domestic Uses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in trimming-tables and theobject is to provide a table for conveniently measuring, holding, andcutting or trimming cloths or other fabrics disposed and arrangedthereon, as hereinafter set forth. A

My invention consists in the novel construction and arrangements of theparts and their combination, as will be hereinafter specified, andparticularly pointed out inthe claim.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my invention in the accompanyingdrawings, Wherein- Figure 1 is a plan View of the table having thegraduated measures, and provided with the spring-holders. Fig. 2 is adetail of one of the spring holding devices.

A designates the top of the table, or a board adapted to be laid on atable or otherwise suitably supported. This top or board is of anysuitable length, and has marked thereon longitudinally arrangedmeasuring scales 1,' 2, divided into such parts as may be requisite andneeded. Between these longitudinally arranged measures are parallellines 3,

running the length of the measures and arranged at such distance as maybe convenient to indicate divisions of measures transversely between theedge-scales 1 and 2, and to facilitate the securing of the measure andto ascertain the Width of the fabric to be cut, the parallel lines areintersected by transversely arranged columns or lines 4, 5, 6, in whichare indicated by numerals the distance from the edge-lines, as shown inthe drawings. A

At the ends of the table or board are detachably secured spring-arms 7,8; and intermediate bet-Ween these are similar arms, 9, 10, 11, as mayberequired. These spring-arms consist of spring-wires or narrow and thinstrips of spring metal, as shown, and are formed with a stem a, runningparallel with the face of the table, and have an arched portion h,terminating in a footpiece c, pressing on the face of the table andadapted to press down on the fabric placed on the table and hold it in aposition to which it is adjusted thereon. The spring-arms orholdingarms, are held in position by sleeves 12, fixed on thetable, totake the stems of the arms in case Wires are used to make the arms of;or if the spring-strips are used; then spring tongues or keepers 13, aresecured to the table, and the stems of the strips passed under thekeepers wherein they are detachably retained. By making the spring-,armsdetachable they are readily removed from association with the table,their removal leaving the table free for such other uses as may bedesired; and by making the arms of the form shown and described, withthe arch b, a ready hand-hold is presented whereby they may be insertedor removed, and also when adjustment of the fabrics under them isdesired or required, they may conveniently be raised up free from thetable and the cloth adjusted without tendency to wrinkle or stretch.

The invention is especially useful as a cutting board or table formilliners, but is also equally adapted for domestic purposes. It

is designed for use in cutting out upon.l The rial, while the cut ismade along the edge ofl the board.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

In combination, a trimming-board provided with parallel and transverselyarranged indicated measures, keepers secured to the face In Witnesswhereof I hereunto set my hand of the board, and spring-holding arms,dein the presence of two witnesses. tachably secured in the keepers, andconsisting of a stem arranged parallel with the face VIN A JONES. 5 ofthe board and an arched front portion terminating in a foot-pieceadapted to bear WltsesPEmH on the face of the board, substantially asset forth.

S. E. BANCOM.

